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From the Ted Talk by Dee Boersma: Pay attention to penguins

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Braying)

That's a penguin bynairg to tell you that it's important to pay anttoetin to penguins. Most important of all, I didn't know what that was the first time I hread it. And you can imagine sleeping on fnnarenida your first night there and you hear this lonesome, plaintful call. I fell in love with penguins, and it certainly has changed the rest of my life. What I found out I was studying is really the difference in how the Galapagos changes, the most exremte variation. You've heard about these El Ninos, but this is the extreme that pneungis all over the world have to adapt to. This is a cold-water event clelad La Nina. Where it's blue and it's green, it mnaes the water is really cold. And so you can see this current comnig up — in this case, the Humboldt Current — that comes all the way out to the Galapagos Islands, and this deep uenrsdea current, the Cromwell Current, that upwells around the Galapagos. That brings all the nutrients: When this is cold in the Galapagos, it's rich, and there's plenty of food for everyone.

Open Cloze


(Braying)

That's a penguin _______ to tell you that it's important to pay _________ to penguins. Most important of all, I didn't know what that was the first time I _____ it. And you can imagine sleeping on __________ your first night there and you hear this lonesome, plaintful call. I fell in love with penguins, and it certainly has changed the rest of my life. What I found out I was studying is really the difference in how the Galapagos changes, the most _______ variation. You've heard about these El Ninos, but this is the extreme that ________ all over the world have to adapt to. This is a cold-water event ______ La Nina. Where it's blue and it's green, it _____ the water is really cold. And so you can see this current ______ up — in this case, the Humboldt Current — that comes all the way out to the Galapagos Islands, and this deep ________ current, the Cromwell Current, that upwells around the Galapagos. That brings all the nutrients: When this is cold in the Galapagos, it's rich, and there's plenty of food for everyone.

Solution


  1. braying
  2. called
  3. penguins
  4. coming
  5. undersea
  6. means
  7. attention
  8. heard
  9. extreme
  10. fernandina

Original Text


(Braying)

That's a penguin braying to tell you that it's important to pay attention to penguins. Most important of all, I didn't know what that was the first time I heard it. And you can imagine sleeping on Fernandina your first night there and you hear this lonesome, plaintful call. I fell in love with penguins, and it certainly has changed the rest of my life. What I found out I was studying is really the difference in how the Galapagos changes, the most extreme variation. You've heard about these El Ninos, but this is the extreme that penguins all over the world have to adapt to. This is a cold-water event called La Nina. Where it's blue and it's green, it means the water is really cold. And so you can see this current coming up — in this case, the Humboldt Current — that comes all the way out to the Galapagos Islands, and this deep undersea current, the Cromwell Current, that upwells around the Galapagos. That brings all the nutrients: When this is cold in the Galapagos, it's rich, and there's plenty of food for everyone.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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ballast water 3
general public 3
environmental costs 2
sea lions 2
la nina 2
el nino 2
marine iguanas 2
oil pollution 2
oiled penguins 2
satellite tag 2
amazing creatures 2


Important Words


  1. adapt
  2. attention
  3. blue
  4. braying
  5. brings
  6. call
  7. called
  8. case
  9. changed
  10. cold
  11. coming
  12. cromwell
  13. current
  14. deep
  15. difference
  16. el
  17. event
  18. extreme
  19. fell
  20. fernandina
  21. food
  22. galapagos
  23. green
  24. hear
  25. heard
  26. humboldt
  27. imagine
  28. important
  29. islands
  30. la
  31. life
  32. lonesome
  33. love
  34. means
  35. night
  36. nina
  37. ninos
  38. pay
  39. penguin
  40. penguins
  41. plaintful
  42. plenty
  43. rest
  44. rich
  45. sleeping
  46. studying
  47. time
  48. undersea
  49. upwells
  50. variation
  51. water
  52. world